Jasmine Hirst

Football advocate for women

2025 VIC Local Hero Nominee

Over the last 15 years, Jasmine Hirst has given hundreds of girls and women the opportunity to play soccer.  

Jasmine launched the Darebin Falcons Women’s Sports Club junior girls’ soccer program with just one team in 2011. Fast forward to the 2024 season, Jasmine has made possible over 30 junior and senior soccer teams and enabled more than 550 females to play soccer, including the largest girl-exclusive MiniRoos and MiniTillies programs in Victoria.  

Jasmine’s tireless efforts have given females access to scarce local facilities, grounds and equipment – creating Australia’s biggest soccer program for girls and women.  

In 2020, Jasmine launched the young referees program to increase the number of female referees in Victoria and to pay them for their services. 

One of Australia’s few female soccer administrators, Jasmine’s trailblazing work has had a profound influence on growing football participation rates across Australia and an extraordinary impact on girls and women’s sport.